Diving into the life and greatness of Jackie Cochran from her autobiography.

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"To live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death."

- Jackie Cochran

4:25 - An upbringing of poverty

Until I was eight years old I had no shoes. My bed was usually a pallet on the floor and sometimes just the floor…Food at best consisted of the barest essentials–sometimes nothing except what I foraged for myself in the woods of the Northern Florida sawmill towns my foster family called home. And we were always a little hungry.

8:50 - Feeling different

10:25 - Stubbornness wins

13:20 - The dream

14:10- The power of hardship

 Because of where I came from and then where I went, I ended up understanding intimately one very sustaining line of life: I could never have so little that I hadn’t had less.

17:30 - Aviation and a reason for living 

20:45 - Signs that you're on the right path

23:20 - Speed with safety

 26:10 - Challenging the norms/ambition

29:35 - Facing fear

 “Do you know what you call that? Guts. Jackie would get in there, in a race, in a contest, in a jet trying to set a new record, and she’d keep pushing, because she had the guts."

36:35 - Breaking the sound barrier

38:00 -Lessons/takeaways

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